Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@EsmeLKPartridge Lovely. Upon this theme, John O'Donohue's, 'Beauty: The Invisible Embrace', surely describes one of the more luminous weddings of metaphysical intellect to supernal eloquence among us. And what of cyberspatial beauty, eh? An essential language of one world unity, isn't it?

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 6 Jan 2022

@SophiaCycles I prefer the Mitchell translation: "For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying." ?s=20

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Quoted by@joynessthebrave @Plough I always felt John O'Donohue's 'Beauty: The Invisible Embrace', somehow transcended a reach or separation between medium and subject that even Greats rarely secure. Perhaps the man was simply one of our era's most beautiful of souls and his command of language, Christic sublime.